Art, computer science and data science: meharry SACS #GOALS Exhibit
The #GOALS SACS exhibit was designed to introduce middle school students to healthcare careers by incorporating art, computer science, and data science.
The #GOALS SACS exhibit was designed to introduce middle school students to healthcare careers by incorporating art, computer science, and data science.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry, from improving patient outcomes to streamlining administrative tasks. However, issues with public trust persist, as does the need for datasets and highly skilled healthcare data scientists that represent all of society.
Digital advancements have contributed to an exponential growth of health care data. While maintaining patient data privacy will remain a priority, that data also drives critical advancements in patient treatment and outcomes. Cybersecurity is the key to maintaining patient trust through data privacy protection and improving health care outcomes through research advancements.
Data diversity is an important step to improving health equity as data science applications continue to drive health care decisions.
At Meharry SACS, students can gain hands-on, practical experience working with health care, financial and other data. Applying classroom concepts to these datasets is important to strengthening their data science expertise and also helps them build a portfolio of projects for future career opportunities.
Each Black Friday, online and brick-and-mortar retailers seek to kick off a successful holiday shopping season through strategically targeted sales. Machine learning algorithms make these sophisticated cmampaigns possible by using big data to predict demand, even as it changes through consumer behavior.
Data diversity is an important step to improving health equity as data science applications continue to drive health care decisions.
Jane Yu, M.D., Ph.D., is a solution architect for Microsoft Corporation specializing in IT systems for data science, AI, and machine learning.
The explosion of information presents exciting opportunities for industries to grow through data science. Health care, finance, energy, media and several other industries are discovering insights from big data through data science that help businesses make strategic decisions and optimize outcomes.
The potential to improve public health, clinical outcomes, treat complex diseases and advance drug discovery is possible through health care data science.